From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 01:11:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E5C16A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:11:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053BB43D2F for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:11:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1236985671; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:41:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:41:48 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jay Moore Message-ID: <20041212011148.GX38962@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> <200412111901.43885.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DHfswzTG6eDt0nli" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412111901.43885.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Damien Hull cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:11:51 -0000 --DHfswzTG6eDt0nli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 19:01:43 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:47 pm, Damien Hull wrote: >> I've been a FreeBSD user for a while now and I love it. I'm running 4.10 >> and plan on upgrading soon. I'm also an OpenBSD user but I tend to use >> it for firewalls and routers. I setup Apache and Subversion on OpenBSD >> 3.6 last week. This is the first time I have ever done anything other >> then a firewall on OpenBSD. >> >> I'm thinking about using OpenBSD on more servers. Before I do that I >> would like to know what people on the list think. > > Asking such a question makes you sound a little limp-wristed, frankly. > > Here's how you should decide: Go to the OpenBSD mailing list > archives, select 25 or so threads at random, and read them. Do the > same for the FreeBSD mailling list archives. Then, make your > decision. And remember, it's not like getting married - you can > change your mind anytime you like. To be fair, this isn't a reasonable way of doing things. What you're saying, I think, is that the tone on the OpenBSD mailing lists is a bit rough. That has very little to do with the relative merits of the system, however. The OpenBSD people are proud of being uncompromising. What would I recommend? Any BSD. DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (in alphabetical order, in case anybody wants to interpret it) are all excellent, reliable, secure, high performance systems. There are differences, but I'd only change from one to another with a good, specific reason. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --DHfswzTG6eDt0nli Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBu5rUIubykFB6QiMRAjIgAKCWb2OtJtHvDQBtmFfIlfN9kYCpiwCfWwnC D54uJ3KwynU1QGeO3QuQfjg= =P8vX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DHfswzTG6eDt0nli--